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' W. H. MARTIN.

CAR FENDER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @ri icn.

\VILLIAM H. MARTIN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,118, dated July 12, 1898.

Application filed March 31, 1897. Serial No. 630,196. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Fenders, similar to my former patent life-saving device, No. 561,267, for which I am desirous of obtaining Letters Patent of the United States, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in car-fenders in which one or both ends of the car is cut away at the bottom, the bottom of said car forming a broken line; and the objccts of my invention are to provide a car capable of accommodating passengers to its extreme ends and furnished with a life-protecting device without requiring space in front of the car in which to operate the life-protecting device or diminishing the seating capacity for carrying passengers. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view with the lifeprotecting device set ready for action in protecting life or limb; 2, a side view representing the exact position the device would assume had it met an obstruction.

In Fig. 1, A represents the end portion of the car directly over and above the cut-away portion 13. O 0 are brackets. D represents a ratchet-roller, said ratchet-roller being secured to the front of the car and supplied with a canvas reef E. At either side of the car is a bent arm F, said arms being secured to the ends of a shaft G, said arms shaft extending through the car and turning in the brackets O O, the inner side of one bracket being furnished with a dog R. Said shaft G has a ratchet P. Said dog It and ratchet P are for locking said arms shaft G when said arms F are turned down. II represents one of the spiral springs. Said springs are-for the purposeof operating said bent arms F and canvas reef E when the pendulous fence I meets an obstruction. I represents a pendulous pivoted fence, pivoted as at J, said fence I being supplied with a rod K, said rod connecting said pendulous fence I with a dog L and ratchet M. The ratchet is secured to said roller D, on which said canvas reef E is reefed. Said pendulous fence I, with said rod K and dog L, keeps said ratchet-roller D and canvas reef E locked when said fence I remains unobstructed and unlocks said ratchet-rollerD and canvas reef E when said fence I meets an obstruction. Elements F, H, and J are the same at either side of the car. Only one side can be shown. N represents an impression-spring, said spring being for. the purpose of keeping said pendulous fence I from causing the ratchet-roller degrees when not cooperating with said pendulous fence I. Said belt 0 assumes a perpendicular position when cooperating with said pendulous fence I when said fence I has met an obstruction, as shown in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 2, A is the end portion of the car over the cut-away portion 13; 0, one of the brackets in which the arms shaft G operates; D, the roller on which the canvas reef E has been unwound, said ratchet-roller D holding the upper edge of said canvas E, the bent arms F and the arms shaft G having been turned down by means of said spiral springs II and locked with said dog R and ratchet P, said bent arms holding the lower edge of said canvas reef E hard down. I represents the pendulous pivoted fence, said fence I assuming the position it would be in had it met an obstructiomsaid impression-spring N having let go of said pendulous pivoted fence I, said fence I pulling on the rod K, said rod lifting said dog L out of said ratchet M of the roller D, on which said canvas reef E has been unwound by means of said spiral springs II and said bent arms F. 0 represents the reciprocating belt, said belt pressing against the bottom portion of said pendulous fence I, said belt 0 assuming a perpendicular position.

WVhen the car is moving and the pendulo us pivoted fence I meets an obstruction, the lower portion of said fence I is stopped by the obstruction, the upper portion of said fence advancing with the car, said fence I slipping out of the impression-spring N and pulling on the rod K, said rod lifting said dog L out of the ratchet M of the rollerD, on which said canvas E is rcefed, said spiral springs H and bent arms F unwinding said canvas reef E, drawing said canvas E over and ahead of and beneath the obstruction and beneath the reciprocating belt 0, said belt 0 and said pendulons fence I keeping the obstruction on the canvas E.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

lhe combination in a car-fender of a pendulous pivoted fence and cut'away car, said car being out under at one or both ends, the bottom of said car forming a broken line, and beneath said car a reciprocating belt,said belt cooperating with said pendulous fence, and

WILLIAM II. MARTIN.

In presence of CHRISTOPHER IIICKSON, HENRY E. FENDGE. 

